Re: Talking Heads? Oh, ya, i hear they are pretty good

How about this. You pick up 77, cuz that's where they started. Then you move to More Songs, where you hear the little developments and start to appreciate that. After that, Fear of Music turns you into a raving lunatic fan, and Remain in Light will make sure you listen to everything they've ever done.

Re: Talking Heads? Oh, ya, i hear they are pretty good

Originally Posted by bmack86

How about this. You pick up 77, cuz that's where they started. Then you move to More Songs, where you hear the little developments and start to appreciate that. After that, Fear of Music turns you into a raving lunatic fan, and Remain in Light will make sure you listen to everything they've ever done.

In a thread full of erroneous impressions, this is the best advice there is.

Re: Talking Heads? Oh, ya, i hear they are pretty good

Re: Talking Heads? Oh, ya, i hear they are pretty good

Top 20 Talking Heads Songs Of All Time Ever

1. Life During Wartime
2. Crosseyed and Painless
3. Stay Hungry
4. Once in a Lifetime
5. Take Me to the River
6. Slippery People
7. Cities
8. Psycho Killer
9. This Must Be the Place
10. Found a Job
11. Burning Down the House
12. Don't Worry Bout the Government
13. I Zimbra
14. The Lady Don't Mind
15. The Great Curve
16. Heaven
17. Born Under Punches
18. Road to Nowhere
19. Uh Oh Love Comes to Town
20. Memories Can't Wait

Re: Talking Heads? Oh, ya, i hear they are pretty good

I guess I just don't get "More Songs..."

It was the second album I had ever heard by them, and it did very little for me. I appreciate it more now, but it's still my least favorite. Well, second least- I would probably pick it over True Stories.

Re: Talking Heads? Oh, ya, i hear they are pretty good

For $150, I would agree. For $87, might as well get them all.

I just went to check...all I have on CD is "Little Creatures" and "Sand In The Vaseline". Everything else is on cassette. And actually, I think "Naked" is OK, and it seems to have gone missing from my cassette collections.

My "True Stories" cassette appears to be some kind of bootleg. Smeary ink and no liner notes.

Yeah, next time my wife asks me what I want for Christmas, I'll have an answer.

Re: Talking Heads? Oh, ya, i hear they are pretty good

Many many years ago I bought The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads on vinyl. probably like the week it came out. It was great fun, I really liked it. But then Stop Making Sense came out a few years later and The Name of... sort of became the b-team live album.

Somehow I just learned this week that The Name of... was re-released a few years ago in a significantly expanded edition. Like 33 songs, over two and a half hours of music. I downloaded it the other day, and have been totally obsessed. It is seriously fucking good. Stop Making Sense was a great movie, but this is better music. and such a deep dive into their catalogue (well, into the first 4 albums at least) with live takes from various points in their career, from a 4-piece playing in a loft to the expanded 10-piece afro-funk collective.

Listening to this stuff now, after not having paid a lot of attention to it for a couple years -- the early THs were so much more powerful than I'd given them credit for at the time. The guitar weave that Jerry and Dave put together, laid over Chris & Tina's supple rhythms, are more complex (and more interesting) than I'd recalled.